The .gifts Domain: An Ending for the Whole Range
.gifts was recorded in the root zone on 31 July 2014, and the IANA entry names Binky Moon, LLC as the contracting party. The zone was first delegated to Goose Sky, LLC and moved to its present holder in the 2018 bulk transfer. The nTLDstats page accessed on 12 August 2026 shows 7,407 registrations, of which 5,589 appear in the zone file.
The plural carries an address from a single gesture to a range of products: a gift shop, a corporate gifting programme, a wish list. Placed after a company name it signals that the catalogue is a standing one. Try candidates with a .gifts domain search, and for a one-off campaign compare the .gift page.
.GIFTS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC
- Infrastructure provider Identity Digital Limited
- Root zone record 31 July 2014
- Registered names 7,407 (nTLDstats, 12 August 2026)
- Present in the zone file 5,589 names, about 75%
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gifts domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gifts Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$8.99 /year -
Transfer
$36.39 /year -
Renewal
$39.19 /year -
Restore
$124.90 -
Late Renewal
$6.73
Included With Every .gifts Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.gifts Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .gifts domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .gifts address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .gifts domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $6.73 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .gifts returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.gifts Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.gifts Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .gifts domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 2 - 10 servers
.gifts Domain Support
- IDN Support Yes
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .gifts Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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It does. The plural implies a standing catalogue, which is the right signal for a corporate buyer.
What helps most in these programmes is having quantities and delivery terms written on a page of their own. A corporate buyer looks for lead times and customisation limits before asking about price. Publishing those up front raises the quality of the enquiries you receive noticeably.
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The test is scope: a standing range reads better in the plural, a single gesture in the singular.
The two endings also belong to different registry operators, so their policies and dispute procedures are separate. Holding a name in one grants nothing in the other. Compare the singular form on the .gift page.
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Link durability, stock synchronisation and privacy are the three that matter.
Shared list links stay in circulation for a long time; pointing a withdrawn product at a similar item rather than an error page keeps the list usable. Who can see the list should also be stated plainly. Pages holding personal data need a certificate; check its state from the SSL checker page.
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Of 7,407 registrations, 5,589 appear in the zone file — about 75%.
Three names in four have genuinely been pointed at a server. Because the zone is small, roots combining a product category or a city name remain findable. Testing a few combinations at once through the bulk domain name search saves time.
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Yes. It runs on an authorisation code and the registry asks for no extra documents.
Catalogue sites draw heavy search traffic, so confirm that every nameserver record carries across during the move; one missing entry leaves product pages unreachable. Schedule it outside promotional periods and start from the domain transfer page.
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